Pope Francis Quotes

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

People protect what they love.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

Let's try to protect everything that's important to us.

We've seen that if we do not pollute, then the environment becomes so beautiful.

I do hope there are other wonderful planets living and thriving out there, but ours is special because it is ours and ours to take care of. We really can't take that too lightly.

I want to work on environmental issues.